On New Year's Eve, eating Rat Qu Kueh means reunion and health. Nowadays, if young people don’t know how to cook it themselves, or don’t want to do it, they can go to the vegetable market to buy it. Whether it tastes good or not is another matter.
Rat shell cake, foreign friends may think it has something to do with mice when hearing the name, but in fact it has nothing to do with it. If you have poor eyesight, it looks a bit like it at first glance. Putting the dark rat shell cake next to the corner will probably scare a lot of weak girls.
Rat shell cake is named after the addition of rat grass into the skin of the rice cake. Sage grass is a seasonal plant. It is both a wild vegetable and a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. It has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough and detoxification. The attractive figure of rattlesnake can still be found on some rural dirt roads.
Rat shell cake is mainly divided into two parts, the skin and the fillings. The two are the outside and the inside of each other. The kueh skin wraps the fillings, and the inside and the outside are combined into one, working together to capture your taste buds.
The main ingredient in the skin part of the rice cake is glutinous rice flour, which is also the main source of the chewy texture of the rice cake. As the saying goes, eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. In winter, radish is big and plump and in season. This ingredient is also added to the skin of the rice cake, and then mixed together and steamed until ready.
The fillings are relatively rich, probably including melon seeds, black sesame seeds and crushed peanuts. Stir all the fillings evenly and wait for them to be wrapped in kueh skin.
I have to mention Guaci here, which is a nightmare for locals. Because it’s really too sweet! People who eat dog food are not willing to eat melon unless they are paired with other foods to dilute the sugar content of melon.
has said so much, what is melon album? Guazhu is winter melon sugar , and it tastes almost like sugar. Friends who are not afraid of with high blood sugar and can go to the kitchen to grab a handful of granulated sugar, pour it into your mouth and wait for it to slowly melt. This is probably what it feels like.
The ingredients are all ready, and the fillings are wrapped in the kueh skin. It needs to have a beautiful shape, and this is when the kueyin comes on stage.
In the impression, the small cake seal is exclusive to rat shell cake, because the larger cake seal is also the seal of red peach cake. The shape of the kueh seal is like a longevity peach, which symbolizes health and longevity.
The rat cakes printed from a mold need to be covered with banana leaves. One is to increase the flavor of the banana leaves, and the other is to avoid sticking to the steaming plate. Each rat cake looks like the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of our Qin Empire.
Boil cold water and steam for a few minutes before it is ready. The picture below is the finished product of the rat cake. The poor craftsmanship made everyone laugh. The pattern of the rat cake has also changed from ultra-high definition to standard definition, but please don’t pay attention to these details.
A bite of rat cake is full of aroma and just the right amount of sweetness. Today's young people are facing the crisis of hair loss at a young age, and the black sesame seeds in it have the effect of growing black hair.
To be honest, today's young people may not have eaten black sesame seeds a few times throughout the year. Traditional food is suitable for all ages and is full of Chinese New Year flavor. It is these New Year flavors that make the New Year full of flavor. Here I wish everyone a Happy New Year and eat "rabbit" in the Year of the Rabbit!
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